https://weird.solar/1-the-subjunctive-reality-hypothesis-ab1e90927c76# …https://twitter.com/argletargle/status/775573443408343041 …
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Replying to @MoralOfStory
not sure I get it right bc I have cached thoughts on this, but I like that you can formulate it as <statement> under <reality>
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Replying to @allgebrah @MoralOfStory
which, interestingly, from the POV of the statement, makes subjunctive realities indistinguishable from "real" ones
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Replying to @allgebrah @MoralOfStory
for some classes of ontologies, this gets rid of grounding: nothing needs to "confer" reality, anything you can imagine exists
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Replying to @allgebrah
yes, that is the point. Ground reality in exactly nothing. A good ontology must do that. (https://weird.solar/at-least-this-title-exists-372b5ae5f6ea …)
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Replying to @MoralOfStory
a related idea is to ground reality in the platonic plane, which I thought to be original until I saw http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.pdf …pic.twitter.com/j43XWPcVel
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Yes. I consider my piece mostly a justification of the computable part of Tegmark IV. The uncomputable parts are in my series l8r
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